The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps (aka So-Safe Corps) has arrested five suspects for alleged armed robbery and burglary.
The arrests, in two different operations, comprised a one-man armed robbery suspect,
whose previous records of operations were carried out with a makeshift pistol, while the other gang of four specialized in the burgling of residential apartments.
The two incidents took place under the Agbara Area Command of the Corps, led by AC Adebesin Lukmon.
In the case of the suspected armed robber,
Oluwatosin Ayinde, he had set out, as usual, on Friday, March 22, fully prepared for an operation, when the law of retribution caught with him
According to a press statement issued by the State Commander of So-Safe, Dr. Soji Ganzallo, through the Director of Information and Public Relations of the Corps, AC Commander, ACP Moruf Yusuf, the suspect’s cup of criminality got filled to the brim on the said day.
He was alleged of attempting to dispossess one Abiodun Ogunbiyi of his motorcycle at gunpoint, by flaunting a ‘pistol’, which was later discovered by the victim as a makeshift pistol, formed from a gas lighter, resulting in a physical combat between the duo on the victim’s motorcycle.
In the ensuing upheaval, during which they both fell off the bike, the victim raised an alarm that attracted officers of the Corps, who were very close to the scene.
The incident, according to the statement, occurred at Idanyin near Agbara at about 9:35pm on March 22. while officers of the Agbara Area Command of the Corps, led by
AC Adebesin Lukmon, were on a routine patrol.
Ganzallo noted that, on sighting the officers, the suspect threw the gas lighter, which looked like a stainless pistol, into a nearby bush, adding that, “This tool he used to intimidate his victims into submission”.
On interrogation, the suspect, a resident of Idanyin in the Ado-Odo/Otta Local Government Area of Ogun State, confessed to the crime, and further owned up to his membership of Eiye Confraternity.
Recovered from him were a blue Honda motorbike, manually marked LSR 615 QM, two Techno Spark4 phones.